{"id":1041625,"date":"2026-09-03T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1041625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:16:12","slug":"sue-bird-faces-a-new-kind-of-pressure-as-managing-director-of-us-womens-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1041625\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Bird faces a new kind of pressure as managing director of US women&#8217;s national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z645FGHAYNGPLE7LNQXSDCAGUA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BERLIN \u2014 Sue Bird started building a potential World Cup roster in her head soon after she got the job as the first managing director of the U.S. women\u2019s national team <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/usa-basketball-olympics-bird-11d908122c676d3cfee6a9bf90770260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 16 months ago<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XZNO4NBYAJCLLPX27CH6JUDDDA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Those thoughts, which underwent many changes over the past year, have now come to fruition as the Americans prepare to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-basketball-us-clark-wnba-c0ea6e0d11c72b2f28007dc5c87ef8de\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open play against China<\/a> on Friday. Bird feels a different kind of pressure than she did as a player for the U.S. during her incredible playing career, during which she helped the Americans win five Olympic gold medals and four World Cup championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 Sue Bird started building a potential World Cup roster in her head soon after she got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1041626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1339,417035,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-1041625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-bkl-wcup-us-bird-architect","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117209424574122064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}